Package: ftp.debian.org Hi,
Please change pidentd from standard to optional. The reasoning for this is the following. From observations around me I think it is far from expected that a new installation of a standard Debian system includes an identd listing externally, the majority of systems don't have identd (and thus explicitly removed it after system installation), and those that need it will be able to find and install it. From a security point of view I think that it would be good if a standard Debian system would have no externally listening services by default and only open up those ports when the administrator installs such a package. This is one of only two ports still open on a standard Debian install. This issue was put to the maintainer in bug 416570 well over a year ago, but received no response to date (the maintainer hasn't responded to any of the current bugs in over 2 years). thanks, Thijs
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